Emma Cline is the author of the acclaimed best-seller
The Girls. One of her
six favorite books set in California, as shared at
The Week magazine:
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
I read this book as a teenager — it was the first time I understood you could write about where you were from, that a place could take on the qualities of a character. This essay collection, alongside Didion's The White Album, defined for me a particular California darkness — the mythology and the danger, all filtered through Didion's crystalline details.
Read about
another book on the list.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is among
Boris Kachka's six favorite books,
Max Jones's top ten books about exploration, and
Kurt Andersen’s five favorite ’60s books, and is a book
David Rakoff keeps returning to.
--Marshal Zeringue
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